Search Intensifies for Missing Moroccan Teen in Spain as Family Pleads for Help

The young woman was last seen at the Jaraíz de la Vera bus station where she was boarding for Madrid. On the security camera images of the Madrid station, Salma Jabbouri appears alone. According to her relatives, she "left with her identity card, but without a bank card and her mobile phone is turned off," reports El Cierre Digital which contacted her parents. Without news of her for almost a week, the latter are desperate. "The police say they are continuing the search in Madrid. If she doesn’t want to come back, at least we want to be able to talk to her and know that she’s okay, that she calls us so we can be reassured," the worried parents say.

And they add: "Our daughter has never gone out alone on the street, at no time did she warn us of anything and she was normal. We are very worried about her, we ask her to please come back. If she left because she wants something, we will let her do what she wants. Her little brother cries all the time, calls her name and asks questions about her. We are all very sad." For her parents, Salma is "a very good girl" who has never "caused us any problems." "If she doesn’t want to marry this guy, she won’t. She will marry whoever she wants, we just want her to be with us," insist the girl’s parents.

Salma met her boyfriend in Morocco during the end-of-year holidays that she spent in the kingdom with her family. The young man is "5 to 10 years older than her and she wanted to get engaged to him," said Karima, Salma’s aunt, stressing that the young Moroccan, in her second year of high school, is currently "in the middle of the exam period." "Even though I think she was a little scared because she didn’t work hard enough, she’s excited to go to university and wants to study architecture," she assures. According to Karima, her niece is normally attending classes and "maintains good relationships with her classmates."

Salma doesn’t really like to go out and "prefers to spend time at home" with her family, Karima specifies. According to the first elements of the investigation, Salma may have left with a man she met on social networks. Her aunt Karima confirms that she has an Instagram account that they were unable to access on Thursday, the day after her disappearance. When reporting her disappearance to the police